You may have read Hunter S. Thompson’s famous article recounting the rampant debauchery at the Kentucky Derby and thought you’d glimpsed the true, beating heart of insane white people shit. But you’d have been mistaken. It’s not until you see these photos of the Melbourne Cup, Australia’s most drunken and depraved…

Let’s say it’s someone’s birthday, and you’re tasked with buying them a cake. You don’t want to do something obvious like, “Happy Birthday [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME].” You want something more intimate. Something that suggests you know this person better than anyone else. So what do you do? You get them a cake that says,…

A bewildering headline out of the Wall Street Journal this morning: “Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds.” How are they... how are they using the robot babies for birth control?

In his new profile of Margot Robbie for Vanity Fair, Rich Cohen makes the mistake of equating his sexual desire for Robbie with compelling insight. He also made the mistake of giving all of Australia a lazy backhanded compliment, which is now backfiring at a rapid rate.

Whenever the Olympics roll around, we’re treated to a round of stories about the wondrous hook-up scene at the Olympic Village and athletes’ outlandish condom consumption. It’s a real treat! But this year brings a downbeat twist: Some of those condoms are designed to be Zika-resistant.

This story was originally published on December 8, 2015. Shortly thereafter, Craig Wright scrubbed much of his digital presence and disappeared for months—until May 2, 2016, when he publicly announced that he is the creator of Bitcoin.

If you saw Taylor Swift perform in Melbourne, Australia late last year during her 1989 tour, you might have seen a bearded, 35-year-old white man tripping balls in the audience. But that man wasn’t someone’s overly-chill dad or older brother, he was Joshua Tillman—better known as Father John Misty.

Despite becoming a cultural phenomenon at home, shows like Empire aren’t attracting the same number of viewers abroad, leading some to believe that the world just isn’t ready for African American stories outside of America. But it’s not that simple: the business of television is changing.

Three Australian men who pled guilty to gang raping a 17-year-old girl while visiting Croatia have apparently paid around $22,000 (USD) to avoid jail time. Australia’s Brisbane Times reports that that Dylan Djohan, 23, Ashwin Kumar, 23, and Waleed Latif, 21 all agreed to pay a settlement to their Norwegian victim…

In Sydney, Australia, a young girl named Stephanie Kurlow plans to become the world’s first ballerina in a hijab—despite haters, both within and outside the Muslim community, who say that Muslims shouldn’t dance.

Life’s a little less logistically complicated for the nursing mothers of the Australian House of Representatives, who—thanks to new, deliberately more family-friendly policies—can now breastfeed in chambers instead of having to trudge back to their offices.

If you’re a big Seinfeld fan who is planning a trip down under, you might want to add a place called George’s Bar to your list of must-see spots. A pair of bar owners have opened up a drinking hole completely dedicated to the character of George Costanza.

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are still fighting with Australia over the fact that, months ago, they smuggled their two Yorkshire terriers into the country, briefly avoiding the mandatory 10-day quarantine because they’re famous. Yes, this situation is still happening.